Time and History in Deleuze and Serres

Bernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

• 1. Introduction, Bernd Herzogenrath; 2. What is Revolutionary in Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History?, Eugene W. Holland; 3. Deleuze, Foucault and History, Paul Patton; 4. Ulyssean Trajectories: A (New) Look at Michel Serres's Topology of Time, Maria Assad; 5. Time Folded and Crumpled: Time, History, Self-organisation and the Methodology of Michel Serres, Kelvin Clayton; 6. 'Invent liquid history and the ages of water': Deleuze and Serres read Lucretius, Hanjo Berressem; 7. Life Without Humans: What Does it Mean to Become Imperceptible? Claire Colebrook; 8. 'History is [like] Physics': Deleuze on Bergsonian Duration and Nietzsche's "Eternal Return", Nathan Widder; 9. Time Out of Joint, Elizabeth Grosz; 10. The Strange Nomos of Becoming, William Connolly and Jane Bennett; 11. A Physical Theory of Heredity/Heresy: The Education of Henry Adams, Bernd Herzogenrath. Bibliography; Index.

This book definitely fills a gap in the scholarly literature. There did not yet exist a book on theresonances between the philosophies of Michel Serres and Gilles Deleuze, resonances that clearly exist and that were also confirmed by Michel Serres himself in the 1995 interview with Hari Kunzru.[1] Filling this gap, this edited volume at the same time helps to relieve the lack of extended scholarly literature on the work of Michel Serres in particular.